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When the ternary operator ( ?: ) is called with a void function as one of the last operands, the error given in the java perspective is: No exception of type void can be thrown; an exception type must be a subclass of Throwable This is misleading since the problem is one of a malformed statement (or not a statement at all), rather than anything obviously exception related.
This will show the problem: public class Snippet { private static void voidA() { } private static void voidB() { } private static boolean b = false; public static void method() { int i = 0; switch(i) { case 0: b ? voidA() : voidB(); break; } } }
I agree this error is misleading. Note though that there was a primary syntax error reported just above: case 0: ^ Syntax error on token ":", throw expected after this token The misleading error is a secondary error induced by the statement recovery.
Statement recovery did produce a strange construction: public static void method() { int i = 0; switch (i) { case 0 : ; throw (b ? voidA() : voidB()); break ; } }
Changing Version tag to something more believable.
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